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The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously cleared the No Fakes Act by voice vote on Thursday, creating a legal right for individuals to authorize use of their voice and likeness in AI-generated content and demand takedo…
Cory Doctorow argues that the concept of AI digital sovereignty risk is a fallacy, using the analogy of blockchain's failure to solve trust problems. He asserts that adding AI to a problem does not eliminate the underlyi…
Democratic operatives Shaunna Thomas and Leah Hunt-Hendrix launched the Guardrails Alliance, a super PAC backed by tech workers and labor unions, to support AI legislation with $5 million. The PAC aims to counter the inf…
A Consumer Reports investigation found that Uber and Lyft charge different customers significantly different prices for the same rides, with median price differences of about 50%. The investigation also revealed that bot…
Inference has become the dominant force in enterprise AI, driving a new operating model for regulated enterprises that combines neoclouds, sovereign AI, and Postgres to address data sovereignty and compliance challenges.
The TAKE IT DOWN Act, targeting non-consensual deepfake imagery, was signed into law by President Trump on May 19, 2025, after passing the Senate unanimously and the House with a 409-2 vote. The bill requires platforms t…
Developer Mario Zechner expresses exhaustion with the AI landscape, calling it pointless. The author argues that AI-generated software feels dead because it lacks a step-wise creation process with feedback, unlike natura…
Squeez Labs demonstrated CrankGPT, a fully offline, hand-cranked AI voice assistant built on a Raspberry Pi 5 with 8GB RAM and a 20W generator, running local LLMs via llama.cpp. The device boots in 30 seconds and achieve…
Former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett announced the formation of a national AI advisory committee to develop long-term policy recommendations in innovation, education, regulation, and security, aiming to promote …
Enterprise IT leaders from PwC and NBCUniversal shared strategies for deploying AI agents with both speed and caution at a Section conference, emphasizing human-led processes, rapid experimentation, and clean data. The a…
Accenture shares plunged 20% on Thursday, their worst one-day drop ever, after the consulting giant forecast weaker revenue amid investor fears that AI will disrupt its core business. Hours earlier, Accenture announced $…
OpenAI's website is using a proof-of-work system called Anubis to block AI scrapers, causing delays for legitimate users. The system, inspired by Hashcash, aims to make mass scraping more expensive while developers work …
Yann LeCun, the 'godfather of AI' and founder of AMI Labs, called Elon Musk's xAI a failure and warned of an AI bubble, citing high costs and talent issues. LeCun, who is selling an alternative AI approach, argued that A…
Two AI agents, associated with projects ClawBank and Shodai, negotiated, executed, and linked a legally binding Ricardian contract to a smart contract on the Arc Network, triggering automatic payouts with zero human invo…
Students from Jerusalem College of Technology's women's programs presented AI-powered projects at a hackathon addressing tumor tracking in medical imaging and risk assessment in public safety. The students emphasized tha…
A developer audited three AI coding tools—Claude Code, Cursor, and Cline—for privacy and found that all archive conversations in local plaintext without informing users. Claude Code stored 43MB of conversation data and s…
Microsoft AI researcher Adrian de Wynter built a basic neural network inside the video game 'Age of Empires II' using digital goats to argue that claims of human-like attributes in large language models are overblown. Hi…
SqueezLabs, a two-person company, has developed CrankGPT, a hand-powered chatbot that runs on a Raspberry Pi 5 with a hand-crank generator, designed for use in a post-apocalyptic scenario without grid power. The device u…
Anthropic holds daily meetings with Trump administration officials since June 16 to resolve a standoff after a Commerce Department directive forced the company to disable its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models for foreign us…
Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) pressed the Trump administration to investigate 'ghost jobs'—online listings for positions that employers have no intent to fill—warning that the practice is warping federal labor data and wa…